Robert Faurisson International Prize 2026 (seventh edition)

Ostuni, 29 January 2026

Dear friends,

I am pleased to inform you that the Robert Faurisson International Prize 2026, seventh edition, took place successfully in Vichy on 25 January without any intrusion, impediment or disturbance from the Enemy (of man, nature, goodness, beauty and truth).

After the customary tribute at 11 a.m. at the Professor’s grave, which we found to be in good condition and embellished with an engraving of Arthur Rimbaud’s poem ‘Voyelles’, the award ceremony took place in a venue in the city.

Prior Laureates

• Ursula Haverbeck (2019)
• Vincent Reynouard (2020)
• Wolfgang Fröhlich (2021)
• Monika and Alfred Schäfer (2022)
• Germar Rudolf (2023)
• Arthur Butz (2024)

For the first time, this year’s Prize was given posthumously to Jürgen Graf*, a distinguished revisionist scholar who recently passed away. A brilliant polyglot and formidable researcher, Jürgen Graf made a fundamental and lasting contribution to historical revisionism with his lucidity, courage and devotion.

Shortly before his passing, a great friend of mine also “moved on”, who had been part of its Committee since the creation of the Prize and to whom we owe the website that collects the “Faurisson Archive” (https://robert-faurisson.com/): the excellent Guillaume Nichols, secretary of the Professor.

Now I imagine Jürgen, Guillaume and Robert strolling together, conversing, in the boundless meadows of the Elysian Fields.

Jürgen Graf was born in Basel, German-speaking Switzerland, in 1951. He studied Romance languages, English and Scandinavian studies at the University of Basel, graduating with a licentiate degree. He then worked as a teacher and translator in Switzerland and abroad. In 1991, through his older compatriot Arthur Vogt, he became acquainted with historical revisionism, to which he has since devoted most of his creative energy.

In 1998, he was sentenced in Baden, Switzerland, to 15 months’ imprisonment without parole for alleged “racial discrimination” due to his revisionist books and other writings related to the Jewish narrative of the history of Jews in Europe during the Second World War, a narrative upheld in the West and Russia through criminal law. His elderly and seriously ill publisher Gerhard Förster (who died shortly afterwards) received a 12-month sentence. Graf did not serve his sentence, however, but went into exile in Moscow in August 2000.

After the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution expired, Jürgen Graf returned to his hometown of Basel in 2018, together with his Belarusian wife. He died of cancer. (https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Graf,_J%C3%BCrgen_(1951))